The new President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East will take up his duties on Sunday 17 November 2019.
Michael Augustine Owen Lewis will continue to serve as diocesan bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, a post he has held for the past twelve years. Prior to that he was for eight years Bishop of Middleton in the Province of York in the United Kingdom.
He succeeds in the primacy the Most Reverend Suheil Dawani, Bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem.
Please pray for Archbishop Michael when on 17 November with representatives of the Province he celebrates the life of the Anglican Churches of the region at a Eucharist in St Andrew Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to which all are invited.
Georgia Katsantonis
Provincial Secretary
Unfortunately, I don`t think that Michael Lewis is GAFCON friendly.
Unfortunately, I don`t think that Michael Lewis is GAFCON friendly.
Wasn’t the deanery of the Gulf recently appealing to be its own diocese? As I recall, the Anglicans on Cyprus were primarily British ex-pats and retirees, where the parishes in the Gulf were much more vibrant, primarily indigenous congregations. Am I remembering this correctly?
Does the primacy for Jerusalem and the Middle East rotate between the various bishops? It seems like every bishop gets a turn sooner or later.
Yes.
Moreover, the Gulf is more orthodox.
In fact, yes, at least, currently. After Mouneer Anis, of the Diocese of Egypt, Suheil Dawani, of Jerusalem, took his place for two and a half years, and now he is succeeded by Michael Lewis, of Cyprus, for more two and a half years. These two bishops come from the two more Canterbury aligned dioceses of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Other dioceses are more GAFCON aligned.